Wednesday-Night

6 March 2008
(Reuters/Planet Ark) HANOVER, Germany - Consumer electronics are becoming greener, but manufacturers still have a long way to go to eliminate hazardous substances from computers and mobile phones and make them more energy efficient, Greenpeace said.
In a survey published at the CeBIT information technology fair in Hanover on Wednesday, Greenpeace praised notebooks and […]

As Diana’s computer has a serious malaise, this message is subject to a brief window of opportunity. Thus, it is short and with none of the usual links to major stories (you will have to do your own homework - but we’ll make it up to you).
With the horrendous weather forecast in view, we will […]

March 4
See also: Rusian Energy and Foreign Policy
(Stratfor) Geopolitical Diary: Medvedev’s Grand Entrance
Dmitri Medvedev started out with a bang on his first day on the job as Russian president-elect, with European leaders waking up on Monday to the news that Russia had cut natural gas supplies to Ukraine by 25 percent.
Of course, state-controlled […]

March 3 2008
Brazil’s lesson for China: do not ignore inequality“:
(FT) In the late 1960s and 1970s, when Brazil was a dictatorship and the economy booming, social policy was neglected. “Grow the cake now, divide it up later”, became the mantra. For the past 20 years, China has sometimes adopted a similar approach.
One […]